Category: Blog

Another victim of the phone scammers

April 25, 2012

An eldery lady was convinced by phone scammers to let them have remote access to her computer after they claimed that her PC had been hacked, would close down, was ruuning slowly and had errors. And she paid them $90. No legitimate firm phones about your computer. Don’t be taken in by them.

Apple react after 600000 Apple Computers infected

April 13, 2012

Flashback Trojan has infected 600,000 Mac computers around the world and has removed the claim that Apple computers are immune to infection. Time to install security!

Problem downloading large attachments with BTinternet email

April 5, 2012

If you are on BTinternet and are having problems downloading emails with Outlook or Outlook Express etc it is probably due to a large attachment. I have been told by BTinternet that there is a problem with attachments over 1000KB at the moment and all you can do is to log onto webmail instead.

Google and privacy 2

March 6, 2012

If you do not want Google to save your history in any account you sign into, follow the instructions to switch off History.

Google and privacy 1

If you do not sign into any Google platform no personalised history is recorded. Browser cookies may retain some data but these can be easily deleted.

How fast is your broadband?

February 20, 2012

Mean broadband speed 7.6 Mbps. Test yours and let me know via Facebook.

Twitter and Facebook

February 16, 2012

You can now follow me on Twiiter @ablecomp and on Facebook

Phone scams are still a major problem

February 14, 2012

Scam phone callers claiming that your computer has problems get you to allow remote access and persuade you to pay £160 to correct the errors. There are lots of reports of similar scams from around the UK and the rest of the world.

Safer Internet Day 2012

February 7, 2012

Read the excellent article from Kaspersky about keeping yourself and your children safe on the Internet. The article was released to mark Safer Internet Day 2012.

Data Recovery and Backup

February 5, 2012

A lost Word Processing file was found, data on a failed hard drive was recovered and a dropped external back up drive was mended. What a week!